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Started by novski, May 23, 2014, 12:57:58 PM

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novski

Hi
Me again with some amateur questions...

I have a Stencil from a big Networkswitches Company that has nice shapes. If i drag them to my drawing they show a line until i drop them. They also snap nicely to my Racks.

I have no idea how that works and wold like to learn more about how it is possible to make such a genius shape.

Where to start? Any recomendations?

Best Regards
Novski

Jumpy

Without knowing the shapes in question: Such shapes are often 1D-Shapes, e.g. connectors or lineshapes, although the look like 2D-Shapes! Because they are in truth connectors, they snap so nicley with the connection points in rack-shapes.

aledlund

Novski,
the shapes are engineered as 1D shapes (like a line). Perhaps this will help

http://www.visiozone.com/?p=298

al

novski

OK. I did a reengineering about that and foud different thaughts of myselb as wrong.

First - make your sheet and drag it to a stencil and save it. Open the Mastershape in the Stencil and work further in this mode.

Second - a Connection Point has to Connect to a 1D line (to be found under Developer Tab and behavior) not a other connection point.

Third - the fine line that apears during draging can be set to bottom when you tipe 0mm to the shapesheet LocPinY under 1-D Endpoint section.

third - its the way you define it to the sheet if its not behaving like you like it. To realy behave like a line do this steps in exactly this row:
1. group all the shapes.
2. define it to be 1D
3. set LocPinY to 0
4. the shape sliped up so drag it down again...

wapperdude

Guess this is a little late, remembered the following post, so I am including it for reference: Topic: Shape snap (computer rack), the link is: http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=291.msg1262#msg1262.  As you can see, it is rather old, but, still pertinent.

Hope this is beneficial.

Wapperdude
Visio 2019 Pro

vojo

you should really study June the Second's stuff (pipingisometrics).    A real wealth of knowledge on how manage lines, shapes, connections.

I cant suggest this emphatically enough !!!!

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